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Dec 22, 2020 07:50 PM EST
After States and counties have been left to handle their share of the first batch of vaccines, distribution became chaotic.
In a rural hospital in Arkansas, the 975 doses per tray of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine contains way too many, but splitting trays into smaller shipments has risks. That is an example of the logistical issues in safely getting the Pfizer vaccine to rural health care workers. Another is once the vaccine is out of the freezer at 94 degrees below zero, the vaccine can only last five days and, thus, must be refrigerated in transit.
According to Dr. Jennifer Dillaha, Arkansas epidemiologist, since over 40 percent of Arkansas territories are rural and Covid-19 infections are climbing, resolving this delivery dilemma is serious.